# Picroft 2018-09-12 and the Google AIY Voice Hat
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725
**Category:** Picroft
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 8:32am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725 "2018-10-05T08:32:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@andlo](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/andlo)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/41 "2019-05-07T18:30:11Z")
For sound level I would recomend the auto volume skill. It will set the level acording to the suroundings and low, middel and high level can be set on home.mycroft.ai.
[https://market.mycroft.ai/skill/auto-volume](https://market.mycroft.ai/skill/auto-volume)
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### Author:  [@Umbrachimera](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Umbrachimera)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/42 "2019-05-23T04:59:33Z")
@andlo you’re my only hope it seems as every forum post I find about this has you in it or recommend! I got my picroft working tonight with the v1 aiy kit. But after a reboot your auto-volume skill flipped to red and I can’t get sound from the box at all, tried reinstalling the skill as well. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@baconator](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/baconator)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/43 "2019-05-23T05:10:02Z")
Check the logs (in /var/logs/mycroft/skills.log) and see if you can find a related error message.
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### Author:  [@Umbrachimera](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Umbrachimera)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/44 "2019-05-23T11:03:36Z")
@baconator
```
10:57:58.119 - msm.skill_entry - INFO - Downloading skill: https://github.com/andlo/auto-volume-skill
10:57:59.537 - msm.skill_entry - INFO - Installing system requirements...
10:57:59.618 - msm.skill_entry - INFO - Successfully installed auto-volume
10:58:01.704 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:121 - INFO - ATTEMPTING TO LOAD SKILL: auto-volume.andlo with ID auto-volume.andlo
10:58:03.253 - mycroft.skills.core:load_skill:168 - ERROR - Failed to load skill: auto-volume.andlo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 148, in load_skill
raise e
File "/home/pi/mycroft-core/mycroft/skills/core.py", line 144, in load_skill
skill.initialize()
File "/opt/mycroft/skills/auto-volume.andlo/ __init__.py", line 59, in initialize
self.settings['Highest messurement'] = meter_thresh
```
Here’s the last chunk of the skills log after I install and try and run it.
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### Author:  [@Olaf](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Olaf)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/45 "2019-06-13T08:01:34Z")
Did you follow these steps exactly?
> [@Picroft 2018-09-12 and the Google AIY Voice Hat](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/34):
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> Hi @andlo, I played around a bit today and this is what I have right now, by doing this: (1) I use a vanilla 9-12 stable image on a v1 board (2) When it boots I Ctrl-C at the Picroft image (3) I add my Wifi in /etc/wpa…, delete auto\_run.sh and reboot sudo nano /etc/wpa\_supplicant/wpa\_supplicant.conf network={ ssid=“MyNetworkSSID” psk=“mypassword” } Ctrl + X and then Y (4) And download/replace your 2 scripts from stretch and reboot wget [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andlo/enclo…](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andlo/enclosure-picroft/stretch/home/pi/auto_run.sh)
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### Author:  [@Olaf](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Olaf)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/46 "2019-10-02T11:59:09Z")
Quick update for people reading this.
Use the new picroft image 2019-07-20 which works flawlessly when doing a fresh install.
[Download it here](https://mycroft.ai/to/picroft-image)
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### Author:  [@sixlinux](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sixlinux)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/47 "2020-03-20T02:12:11Z")
I tried Picroft\_Buster-Keaton\_2020-01-10.img just now. It works straight, no special things to do. Just answer the questions, take the instyalling on AIY v1 option. After getting it up, install the picroft google AIY voicekit skill. That is it! So glad this is working smoothly now. I frankly gave up after days of reading and configurations getting it to work, and then having it fail again after an update three weeks later. I decided to leave it alone for awhile - now 14 months later - it is working well.
Thanks everyone.
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### Author:  [@wouter](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wouter)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/48 "2020-05-03T15:39:01Z")
I also played around for a while with an earlier Picroft image. Voice didn’t work however, so I left it alone for a while. Yesterday I installed the latest Picroft image, looks like almost anything works. All but the button and led. I wonder should I make a fresh install or does anyone have a clue of how to make the button work.
thanx,
Wouter
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### Author:  [@andlo](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/andlo)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/49 "2020-05-03T19:53:53Z")
> [@wouter](#):
>
> All but the button and led.
If you install the picroft-google-aiy-voicekit-skill then button and led will be used and work.
The skill is in the market.
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### Author:  [@wouter](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wouter)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/picroft-2018-09-12-and-the-google-aiy-voice-hat/4725/50 "2020-05-04T13:20:01Z")
Thank you, that did the trick.
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